{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-and-nuclear-fees-regulations-2022/regulation-22",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2022/1378",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Safety and Nuclear (Fees) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-and-nuclear-fees-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Fees payable for activities under the CLP Regulation",
  "text": "(1) The Agency may charge fees for work it carries out within the scope of the CLP Regulation which relates to the activities listed in column 1 of Schedule 16.\n(2) Any fee payable under paragraph (1) must be calculated in accordance with paragraphs (3) to (9).\n(3) Where a fee is payable under paragraph (1), the Agency must prepare and send to the person referred to in column 2 of Schedule 16 (“the applicant”) an estimate of the fee, which will be at least £5,000.\n(4) The applicant must pay the Agency the amount of that estimate within 30 days of its issue.\n(5) Upon completion of the work, the Agency must prepare a detailed statement of the work carried out and of the cost incurred by the Agency or any person acting on its behalf in carrying out that work.\n(6) If the cost referred to in paragraph (5) is greater than the amount estimated in accordance with paragraph (3), the Agency must notify the amount of the difference to the applicant who must pay the amount of the difference, which will be the final fee payable, without delay.\n(7) If the cost referred to in paragraph (5) is less than the amount estimated in accordance with paragraph (3), the fee must be adjusted accordingly and the amount of the difference must be paid without delay by the Agency to the applicant.\n(8) Subject to paragraph (9), in estimating or stating the cost of carrying out any work, the Agency must determine that cost by reference to the daily rate per person specified in column 3 of Schedule 16 that corresponds to the activity listed in column 1.\n(9) The daily rate per person must be adjusted pro rata for a period worked of less than 7.4 hours on any one day by—\n(a) dividing the daily rate by 14.8 to create a half-hourly rate; and\n(b) multiplying that figure by the number of half hours worked, rounded up or down to the nearest half hour.\n(10) Any unpaid fees may be recovered by the Agency as a civil debt.\n(11) For the purposes of this regulation and Schedule 16, “the CLP Regulation” means Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures.\n(12) Expressions used in the CLP Regulation which are also used in this regulation or Schedule 16 have the same meaning in these Regulations as they have in the CLP Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 22 in force at 21.12.2022, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "EUR 2008/1272."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1378/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:51:32.888474+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}